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We have been forced to use an older Edge 1 printer while we consider how to resolve an issue we are having with our Edge 2. We have had this Edge 1 for years as an emergency backup, but we had never used it until recently. My question is, does the printer have a "home" feature like the Edge 2...

We have used a Gerber Edge 2 in our shop for many years, paired with the Envision 375 plotter. Over the years we also added a Mimaki JV4, and now we have an HP Latex 310 and a 360. But for short runs, for anything with white, or anything on chrome, the Edge has been our workhorse. After a...

We have a Gerber Edge 2 that has developed a strange problem. The job will start fine, then a problem develops, always the same distance from the top edge (3" or so from the top). We have a had a pixel go bad in a print head before and that leaves a thin void in the print all the time, every...

We are doing a joint venture with a commercial printing company that got out of the wide format market. Long story, but they needed space and so 6 months ago we took their machinery and are using their equipment along with ours to fill orders for them on a wholesale basis. One of the machines...

We are a graphics company that recently took over some machinery from a company who was getting out of the business. One of the machines is a Mimaki JV34-260. We moved it yesterday and when we plugged it in, it powered up and is on. The other company, who lately hasn't had anyone on staff who...

This morning we noticed a print job had a strange hue to it, so we ran a test print and only one half of the yellow block printed. So we replaced the damper, drew ink into the damper, did 2 INK FILLS and ran another test print. About 10% of the formerly blank half showed yellow, which was a...

We have had our Mimaki JV3-160SP for 4-5 years and it has never done this before. From the moment it begins printing, the vinyl starts heading to the left. It will literally move an inch or so to the left during an 8 foot run, causing a skewed print. We have tried to perfectly align the...

We print a lot of decals, banners, cut vinyl signs, etc. and over the past few years we have picked up some real estate sign business, both commercial and residential. I could get more of this work, but at the present time we either screen print the simple signs or digitally print the more...

Yesterday we moved our JV3-160SP to a new building 10 blocks away from the old building. The move went smoothly, with no noticeable jarring, but we did have to lift each end a few feet above the other to get it into and out of the truck. I hooked everything back up last night and it seemed...

I have searched this forum and found the terms "ghosting" and "overspray", but I'm not sure either of those is the proper term for my issue. See attached pic (ON PIC, THE ISSUE IS AT THE BOTTOM). On the left side of some of our prints, there is a faint yellow "halo" effect, ONLY to the left...

A year or so ago we purchased a basic cold laminator. It is one of the USTECH models that I have seen others mention on this forum. This was our first laminator and we started experimenting and have basically taught ourselves to run this machine, which we use mainly for mounting digital prints...

Our Mimaki JV3-160SP, running the Grimco aftermarket inks, showed a full cartridge as empty. To buy us time to research it, we had the option to add up to 30cc's, which we did. We called Grimco and ordered the parts from Mimaki (new contact sensor, which reads the chip, and a new cartridge...

I have attached a picture of the test pattern from our JV3-160sp. One recent Monday morning the test pattern showed this missing block in one of the yellow patterns. Although it looks like a head strike and a possible damaged head, there is no visible sign of damage by looking at the head from...

We have been laminating digital prints for an interior retail store display. In the past, we would wipe down the substrate with alcohol prior to installing the digital print to the substrate via a laminator, then use a Swiffer Duster on the digital print just before running it through the...

I just made my second most frustrating purchase ever from Gerber. (That is if you don't count the $70.00 I pay every time I call to ask for tips on how to use their equipment.) The $100 bomb-sight for my envision 375 will always be the most furstrating, but here is number 2. Our old computer...

I'll start by saying we don't do much laminating, and what we do has been capably handled with The Biq Squeegee up to this point. But we are getting a few more jobs in where we have to mount vinyl to coro, and laminate to digital prints and I want to start figuring out what is out there. I...

We have some business for coroplast signs and we print on vinyl, then lay on coro like many companies. But I'm curious if any of you have ever tried to run coroplast on a JV3. I can think of a few problems, but none SEEM insurmountable with some minor modifications. I have no intention of...

Yesterday, I noticed a color problem on a job we were printing, so I printed a test pattern and one-half of the cyan is simply missing. You may not be able to see it well in this small pic, but the right half of the CYAN block is fine, and the left half is completely missing. The area is so well...

We don't do any textile printing, but I have a customer who does t-shirts on a small scale using cut vinyl for one color jobs and sublimation for multi-color jobs, but she can only print on light shirts, and can't print white as part of a multi-color logo on a darker shirt. We have a Gerber...

We primarily do decals and what little sign work we do is usually cut vinyl. But we have a customer looking for a lighted sign with a graphic that will need to be digitally printed. We have a Mimaki JV3-160SP and I plan to print on clear and lay the vinyl on a piece of translucent lexan. I'm...